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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1899)
TUK MORNING ASI'ORIAN, FKIDA., NOVEMBER 4, 1899 Prices 65 That Mens Covert Cloth Overcoats SPECIAL. Shirt $1,00 0 0 THE FAMINE IX FREIGHT CARS Trunk Lines Calling; Into Requisi tion all Their Old Discarded Smck. CAR rACTUKIES SKAnfED Wonderful System Adopted by Kail roads to Keep Track of Cars Con signed Over Connecting Lines. The freight car famine brought about by a sudden revival of prosperity has called into action all the available roll In? stock In the country. All the lead ing railroads, especially In the East.are utilizing rolling stock that had remain ed uniiAHd f.ir yearn, and was practi cally discarded. Both the Pennsylvania and tlie New York Central railroad are adding from 5.U0Q to 10,000 cam 10 IhHr equipment, for there are enough advance orders to warrant the belief that the pret-nt activity in freight handling w ill continue f.r another year. Who keep!) track of all these cars that are Ht-nt wandering throughout the land over a network of railroads from Maine to Florida and from Phlla delphla to San Francisco? It in very seldom that one ne-.s a frvight train with more than two or three earn be longing to the wn railroad in it, and muny of the earn that go through east ern cities every hour bear the initials of railroad." far ofT cm the Pacific jdope. How do they ever set bark to their rightful owners again? It Ih all managed like clockwork by a system of book-keeping that has been developed within the past ten years. Up to that time every railroad had to engage spotters men who travel on tru; rear platform nf assenger cara, watched the fivlght trains an they went by ar.d sotted the cars that belonged to the road that employed them Many men, from long experience, became adept at this bttsdnewi and commanded good salaries). It was very seldom a car they were en the lookout for got by them. But the day of the spotter has gone and a large force of trained clerk In the central offices of all the great trunk lines have taken up this work. This department Is one of the largest and itiont Important of the executive force of railroad management. Take the Pennsylvania railroad, for Instance. It has about fifty thousand freight cars constantly rolling all over the country and bound' to all sorts of destinations. Count Without question the best bargain ever offered. Equal to tailor made garments. Never offered at less than $13.50. . . OUR PRICE FOR THIS WEEK . . It Latest pattern Colored Body or Fancy Bosom S. DANZIGER, 490 Commercial Street, Astoria, Oregon j But the book-keeping la taking care of them has been reduced to such an j exact science that the man in charge of I that Jejiartment can tell at any mo i meat where any car of a given numb-r is. It is very seldom, nowadajs, that a car is Ijh, except through collision or fire. Some of the Western roods have ' a habit of "retaining" a car much lon ger than the limitations of buin-s-' -em Ui require, and it Is oft-n neees !ary to prod them with sharp tele graphic communication. But the cars come back. The revolution of this branch of rail roading has made the freight conduct- i or s Miiethirg more than a man who ; has nothing to do but look after the I safety of his train and swap Btori-g in ' the taboos. He has to look after the j tars consigned to him, very much as i a purser on a steamship has to look 1 after his cargo. When a car Is taken ! from his train he gets a receipt for it i from the p-rson he delivers it to and ; his responsibility does not end until he ; has that receipt. Each day he must communicate either by mall or by wir with his ofFce and give an a count of ! the ears in his train. Yard masters of the different divisions are required to do th-; same thing. A large amount of the railroad telegraph business consists of reports of this nature. A freight car Is a hard thing to loi-e under this sys tem, no matter how far from home It may be sent. HEAVY SHOES. A wonnn who !s the victim of the big i-hoe habit says that when she took a trip We.it a few -reeks ago she wore her "comfortable," heavy-soled, rubber hdMj -aifskins. In the sleeping car she gave ord.-rs to the porter to black them. As h'-r berth was the first one from ths little chicken coop place In which the nort'-r attends to hiB odd jobs, she had no difficulty in overhear ing a little conversation that took place betwe-n him and two of the men pa sengvrs. "They calls 'em golf shoes, don't they?" the port;r remarked. "I gug so," replied one of the men. "They're Just strong-minded shoes. The women are getting sensible. High time, too." "Look lak they nade out o' cowhide," the poller commented. "Lawd, look at them rtides; 'bout four inches thick." "Must 'ie a mighty big woman," put in th-; other passenger. "U'-t she weighs 200 If she weighs a pound. I never saw surh shoes in my life. Think she'd have to have derricks to life th:-m up with." t;ut the eavesdropper fell anleep nKht there. In the morning three pairs of eyes looked curiously at her feet and then took in a slender little 103-pound figure. She-said It was really very amusing. Confectioners should make candy over bon-bcm Arts. their Will Pay You to Inspect 'Phis Line. ; MEETING WITH ' GENERAL J0UBERT BOER LEIDER IN ENGLAND How He Crushed the Zulus and Would "Tra-a-i" to Crush the Eng lish Also. Tall Mall Gazette. Some twenty years ago I was sitting in a Southampton bound carriage at Waterloo station, when three burly men, evidently rrelgners, entered my compartment. They had a lot of lug gage, Including many cigar boxes, One was dark, saturnine and lepy. An other fell asleep at one. The third man sat opposite to me. I can only describe him as huge. I had road of Dutchmen, but this man's hands as they rested on has enormous knees were nearly a foot across. There was a senxe of elephantine power about him He looked as if he could have taught hold of me an1 snapped me across his knee like a carrot If he had wanted too, but, fortunately, he didn't want to he wanted a light. I noticed and supplied the want, and he lit up and puffed away fiercely. His. cigar and his eyes seemed to glow to gether, and as he alternately sucked and puffed I got Into conversation and found I was talking to a Mr. Joubert, one of the delegates from the Trans vaal Boers who had corne to England to protest against the annexation of their country, had failed to Impress Lord Klmberly, and were going home, seelrg Paris en route via South hampton and Harve. Mr. Jcubert was very bitter about his failure with our colonial office, and very frank. To my ignc rant mind uk Ignorant as, I believe, most English men's were at that time, more's the pity he seemed a trifle crazy. He de nounced tho English rule and all Its ways, saying we did not understand Zulus, or how to deal with them. "Why," sail he, "you are going to war-r (that was how he pronounced the word) with the Zulus now." I said the English were going to crush the Zulus In self-defense, and also to protect the Boers themselves. "Bah," said he. "You Waive us a-lone. Did we not beat Pandah? Ah, yes! And Dlnga-ahn? Ah, yes! You do not know. Listen see (and he leaned to ward me, spluttering, while as he grew excited his beard and mustache literal ly trlstlexl like plnwire). Those natlfs, to whom you say we are cruel, came down one time and killed our women and children. We followed them. I was one who followed, yew. They run !t Md- In cave. We waited, but we ! could nut gK them out. We rolled Stol.c to the a-S big wtitlle A lid th-ri ill-- raised him-vdf from Ins wilt) we sit m:i th,. Mt,,n.. her ho dr.'pe.l li.u k ni he tusliimi with an a palling ll.iii.pl. and sit and l fur six iw-I,." !! ,ilii4sI, ami ad d d .iil-tly ' 'l ie t we cam., i way." I filly 1-ahZ 'd .h Imp M-nlil'liy ,,f. fugitive. iiiiprvl'l.-d ttlth gun io.dr In lar; ' iUa itiies i.r powerful lua.lii:'er , raiting a iuie ..n which Mr. Jmb-rt might iiap'ti at tin Hunt In If siring, md aU. Hie danger of disturbing him, even from above I ground, w hen .-nguged In his ngn-e-able Mcupatlin. I merely ask.-d him what h- and !ils i-o;ile in.tuit to do. "We shall '.valt," he answered, In u cool, buslrfcssllk' way, as if the affair had been considered before hand, "un til your le-opL. have eaten up Ccte. wayo." He pronoun".-.! 'he butt word "Kets-ch"-.val-yo," with a walling, tomcat emphasis upon the "wal-yo" which mere pen and Ink -annot vocal I xe. "And then?" I asked. "lY shall 'Ight," he said, iulie slm- J ply. I "Man allv-r I cried In sheer amaze. ment, "you can't Ight the British gov- I crnment:" i He sh.jok his hi.l, with an easy roll of his ponderous shoulders. "I do not know," was his answer, "but we shall try." They did "try," as we all know tried to good purpose, and perhaps I was less astonished than most people when the news of our amazing dlscomfture at the hands of a few rebels first came to hand. Assiir"dly, Mr. Joubert was terribly In earnest when he spoke to me. He said Incidentally that they had only one enemy at the Cap. I suggested Hlr llartlo Frere, but he shook his head Impatiently. "Frere? No! Pouf He all right. No! 8-SS - Hhepstone?" He lowered Ills head as he sjnike and fairly hissed out his name, with a look of such awful malignity as I 'have never seen before or since. After that look I kti'tw pcrf.-otly well whether a Boer could Ixi cruel or not, if he got the chance. I have written this short account of my nvxnlng with England's great enetny because It shows, to my mind, thu invincible obstinacy of th roan ar.d his people. When they threw oov-n the gaumllet to a groat empire twenty years ago the chances of this handful of Ho-ts seemed cjulte as hope, less in the world's eyes as they do now nay, more so, If possible. Yet they fought and succoled. Buefi considera tions may stlmula th-m now. Any way, I leave the discussion to pro founder politicians than myself. I only know I found Mr. Joubert a very Instructive companion. When we part ed he shook hands, and told me If I was ever at tho Cape to come and see him. I have not yt accepted his Invita tion, and If I ever do I shall not go, all things considered, Just yet. Next autumn, perhaps. Values ever offered. j I'l'UTLANI) I'tiMBINE llll K EN. San Kriincl-.! Chronicle. AfJ'-r eernl y-.u-s .( undisputed nt ay tie 1 1 1 ,t i ' 1 i iiiiblniitl"ii, o.rfi !-t!ii f l.any Sullivan, Itlihaid .M'V.in "i and th' liiant llntl.er, c"ii ti .IIIiik' 'he a lnHHi'its regii. h.i" l. ,-ei, o. i efuiiy bo..k'-n. Formerly these r. -up in. -I), h' inn the Sailors' I'. in- M I". H I la id, had 'he cull mi all til- -..II' -II .III'! SUppll-d llll the ll.'ltll- in ...Im at pr i lli ally their li Irgtires, i li.it- late being from 1) t. fo and li.. ad . ,c:u . 1 s wll.l that th- cotiibiiiiitlnii dlvld.sl Jvn ihmi a, i(hI yenr's profits. ! It Is lust throe tn iilhs ago that tl.e sin i eshfiii opiHwltl'in start.! t'i do ! bulii s at Astoria. James Turk of I th- c ilgiiiul Pirtl'ind combine hud ill'-d. land Frjnk Turk, his son, thought hnt j hH father's isirtricr were not giving I him a fair deal, so he pulled out and went 100 miles farth t south, forming a r artnershlp with Kotirwy, a hotel man of Astoria, !io whs to lie th" capitalist of the firm. Their flint con tract was with I'apialn Crowe of the British ship Musk'ika, but the Cortland combine drove tlem to Han Francisco f..r the crew, Kunrc-rn Dnnnmoml and Lynch came lwr. and ms'iired sixteen si-ameri, and 'llhsl up the ship on con tract time. After that It was clour sail- lug. All the going to Oregon anchor i Crst at Astoria, and this givs Turk j t:ii. advantage of getting In his work first. The Astoria combine put the rate down to IIS blood .noney, ami It now seems to havei a eorinT itn the sea ni't . (tnly a w k ago Me.Carron had to come here to get a epew of ton mon, so It si-ms that Astoria has turned tho tables on 'ortl,uid. PI1AYEUH FOR THE TROHI'H. In all ih.. London churches social pruyer for times of war In being read, generally In the following form: "Oh, Almighty fiod. king of all kings and governor of all things, whose pow er no rrerUurc H uble to resist, to wh mi it belongeth justly to punish sin. tiers and to Ik- merciful to them that trui ly repent, save and deliver, wo humbly beseech thoe, our tr sips now In Koi'th Africa from the hands of our enemies, abate their pride, assuage llndr mallet; and eonfoMinl their de vices, that we, Ix-lng armed with thy defense, may Is? preserved evermore from all perils to glorify thee, who art tlie only giver of all victory, through the merits of thy :mly son, Jesus Christ our Ivird." l'ENALTIEH IN REVERSED ORDER. Bobby Rich My pa gave me a watch and promised me a llckln' If I was late to school any mor:! What did you get? Johnny Poor A llkln' and a promise of a watch If I was not late any more. "I wouldn't bs without tVWItfi1 Wltrti llnxrl Halv. for anret..lder. tlon." writes Th. U. lthod. Crntr- field. O. Infnlllblo for piles, cuts. burns and k: dlsrasos. li.-war of is.uixrrfelis. For sain by CIIAUL1CH ItOOKKH. Th- iiiuii win. snys he hiu. h llnr M'lllelllnes .mly lucks svlf est. fill It will not i- a lurpris to any who nr.- at all familiar with the good quali ties of I'hiimberlaln'a Cough llnmedy to know t lint people everywhere tk pleasure In relating thrlr xperlno In Hie use of thai splendid mrdli Inn and In tolling of lh" benefit thfy have r. reived from It, of bad colds It has cured, of threat!! attacks of pneu. monla It has avrrtcd and of th chlldrsa It has saved from attack of croup and whooping cough. It Is a grand, food medicine, For sals by Chas. Hog. To the stockholders In a gas company the Silence of the motor Is golden. I ftED BY BRITISH HOLDIEUB IN AF1UCA. Copt. C. O, Donnlson Is well known all over Afrlra a ths commander of tha forces that capturvl tho famous rebel fiallshe. Under date of Nov. 4, 1R&7, fiom Vryburg, Bechuanaland, he wrltrs: "Beforw starting on the last campaign I bought a quantity of Cham lierluln's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Itemcdy, which I used mysidf when troubled with bowel complaint, and had given to my men, and In every case It prived most borvflclal." For sale by Chns. Rogers. It's a poor article that can't get a testimonial of some kind. "I had dyspepsia fifty-seven years and never found permanent relief until I used Kodol dyspepsia Cure. Now I am well and feet like a new man," write! S. J. Fleming, Murray, Neb. It U the best dlgestant known. Cures all forms of Indlgjwtlon. Physicians every where prescribe It For sale by CHA8. ROGERS. 0) -HSHiHSMiHiH (i) RAILROAD FARE FREE PORTLAND AND RETURN. Jones, He Pays the Freight! Jones, He Pays the Fare! If You don't wnnt minin i ..,;! ....... order nnd get 50 rent allowance for fare. OrtlcrB must amotiut to f20 or over. No freiglit paid on flour, feed or potntoM. freight paid to all gist ions on railroad be tween Portland and 8onido. AIo all rirer point reached by Portland boat. Hmid for tho "Bayer' daide," 24 pnge ot low price. JONES' CASH STORE, 108 and 1 10 front Htre.t, Poril.Brf. T i J. I). Ilrldr, Editor "Dmocrat.M Uni-astcr. N, II.. says; "On. Ulnut ,, .. . . , ( ,,uh ( ur th rnrdy for croup I ever uil. ImtiwdlaUly r- llovrs and cures coughs, colds, croup, nsthms. Dinumoiila. bronchitis, grtpps und all tlir.wU anl lung troubles. It prnventa coiisuniptlon. For sal by i IIAKI.K.i ItutJKHH. The Uiwyers for the doftw nrv r' Hiislble for a gr.ul d.al Insanity. II AMIIKIM.AIN'H TAIN HALM "'llltrs uTH'CRS. WHY NOT YOU I My wife has beni Using Chamber lain's I'll I n Unlit) Balm, with good re sults, for n liiinn shoulder that has pained her coiitlniialy for nine years. We have tried nil kinds of mrdlrlnra nnd doctors wIMiout receiving any ben efit from nny of them, one day w saw an advertisement of this tii'dlclne and thought of trying It. whluh we did. with the Ix'sl of sntlsfaotlon. Hho has used only on hottlrt nnd her shoulder Is al most well.-Adolph L. .Illlett. Man chester. N. II. For sals by Chae. Jlog. era. The bullion In a government ,n,, always hurd pi. f,,,. m,1(.y Is DEAFNESS CANNOT BIO CURED By local application, ns they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one wny (o cure deafness and that Is by constitutional remedies' Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of th Eus tachian Tub. When this tube Is In flamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when rl I en tlrely closed, deafness I the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its nor mal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine case out of ten r caused by catarrh, which I nothing but nn Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollar for any case of Deafness (caused by ca tarrh) that cannot be cured by fall'. Catarrh Cure. B-'nd for circular: fre F. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo, O. ' Bold by druggist, 26a. Hall's Family Pill ar the beat. ---HS-Sh-'ih-(tj-'i-ri) 1 I r 7 v